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"It is 1946 when Vera Frankel and her best friend Edith Ban arrive in Naples. Refugees from Hungary, they escaped from a train headed for Auschwitz and were hidden by farmers until the end of the war while the rest of their families perished. Now, they want to start new lives abroad, and armed with a letter of recommendation from an American general, Vera finds work at the United States embassy and falls in love with Captain Anton Wight. But as Vera...
2) Doña Barbara
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Dona Barbara tells the tale of an epic struggle between two cousins for a cast estate and ranch in the Venezuelan llano, or prairie ... Published in 1929 and all but forgotten by Anglophone readers, Dona Barbara is one of the first examples of magical realism, laying the groundwork for later authors such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mario Vargas Llosa.
In Venezuela, Doña Barbara is a beautiful and mysterious woman with a ferocious power over men--...
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"For a century, the Panama Canal has served as the path between the seas. Control of this vital waterway is the difference between free trade and chaos in world markets. So when Panamanian President Rafael Botero asks for a show of support against the socialist opposition, his old friend President Jack Ryan can't turn down an invitation to visit the country, but what seems like an ordinary opportunity to preach the values of democracy quickly turns...
4) Harm's way
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Jonathan Grave thrillers volume 15
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Henchmen of a vicious drug syndicate have snatched ten missionaries in a remote area of Venezuela and are holding them for ransom. The high-priority rescue op comes as a personal plea from FBI Director Irene Rivers, who has a very special interest in one of the hostages. The mission is strictly off the books, and there can be no international incident. With his key operatives Gunslinger and Boxers, Jonathan Grave infiltrates the enemy camp. Right...
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"In Caracas, Venezuela, Adelaida Falcón stands over an open grave. Alone, she buries her mother--the only family she has ever known--and worries that when night falls thieves will rob the grave. Even the dead cannot find peace here. Adelaida had a stable childhood in a prosperous Venezuela that accepted immigrants in search of a better life, where she lived with her single-mother in a humble apartment. But now? Every day she lines up for bread that...
6) Don't let go
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Haunted by the past and eager to make amends, Navy SEAL Solomon McGuire agrees to help teacher Jordan Bliss find her lost child, a Venezuelan orphan named Miguel, but their quest proves unexpectedly dangerous--and romantically rewarding.
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When Captain Kyle Mercer of the Army's elite Delta Force disappeared from his post in Afghanistan, a video released by his Taliban captors made international headlines. But circumstances were murky: Did Mercer desert before he was captured? Then a second video sent to Mercer's Army commanders leaves no doubt: the trained assassin and keeper of classified Army intelligence has willfully disappeared. When Mercer is spotted two years later in Caracas,...
8) Doña Bárbara
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En la parte mas desierta y bravia del cajón del Arauca estaba situado el hato de Altamira, primitivamente unas doscientas leguas de sabanas feraces que alimentaban la hacienda mas numerosa que por aquellas soledadespacia y donde se encontraban uno de los más ricos garceros de la región. "Pues esta es la historia que se cuenta en Doña Bárbara: la del hato Altamira, el más grande del Cajón del Arauca, herencia de los hermanos José y Panchita...
9) Wolfsbane
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Discarded heroes volume 3
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"In Venezuela, Danielle Roark and her Army Corps of Engineers team is captured. After six months of captivity, Dani escapes, only to end up charged with espionage and forced to return to the jungle to prove that a nuclear facility exists. On the mission she feels abandoned by God and country. Will she live long enough to make those responsible pay? Haunted by memories of a mission gone bad, former Green Beret medic Canyon Metcalfe wrestles with his...
10) Blue label
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"Eugenia Blanc, a young Caraqueñan and quintessential teenager at war with the world around her, has one aim: after graduating from high school, to abandon Venezuela definitively. She embarks on a spontaneous road trip in a banged-up Fiat with her rebellious classmate Luis Tévez, in search of her grandfather, the one person who can provide her with the documents that would allow her to leave the country. While Eugenia and Luis's tentative, troubled...
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The End of Power comes an edge-of-your-seat political thriller about rival spies, dangerous love, and one of history's most devastating revolutions. Venezuela, 1992. Unknown colonel Hugo Chávez stages an ill-fated coup against a corrupt government, igniting the passions of Venezuela's poor and catapulting the oil-rich country to international attention. For two rival spies hurriedly dispatched to Caracas-one...
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"En esta novela, Ariza escribe sobre misterio e intriga cientfica. Un afamado premio Nobel, Francis Harley, muere en extrañas circunstancias después de anunciar que había encontrado una fórmula revolucionaria para combatir el cáncer. Tal vez, el secreto de su hallazho se encuentra en un remoto lugar de la selva venezolana. Pero este lugar es peligroso, plagado de riesgos. Es el mundo misterioso de los chamanes"--Container.
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14) Hush
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Thrill seekers Zakary and Gideon Stark travel the globe in search of extreme adventure, but a trip to Venezuela to jump off the world's highest falls catapults them into a perilous game of life or death where they don't know the rules. Kidnapped with a woman Zak knows nothing about, the brothers are held prisoner deep in the jungle. A risky, deathdefying escape separates them and nearly claims Zak's life, until his recovery reveals a baffling new...
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La hija de la española es el retrato de una mujer que escapa de todos los estereotipos enfrentada a una situación extrema. Con su primera novela, la periodista Karina Sainz Borgo, se ha convertido en la gran noticia literaria del año.
It is the portrait of a woman who escapes from all stereotypes when faced with an extreme situation. With her first novel, journalist Karina Sainz Borgo has become the big literary news of the year.
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"Desde muy niño, Boris sabe que es diferente. Muy temprano se detectan problemas de motricidad y dislexia, y el pequeño actúa con unos gestos y una forma de hablar amaneradas. Los adultos dicen que su madre, Belén, una bailarina de renombre, y su padre, crítico de cine, rodean al niño de malas compañías. En Caracas se habla de sus amigos intelectuales y de toda esa gente homosexual con la que ella trabaja. También que Boris está enamorado...
17) The night
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"Caracas 2010. La crisis energética es aprovechada por el gobierno revolucionario para decretar cortes eléctricos que, durante horas, funden a negro todo el país. En esos lapsos de tiempo, Venezuela parece retroceder en la historia hacia una nueva Edad de Piedra que se filtra por todas las rendijas. En medio de esta atmósfera, dos amigos, un escritor frustrado y un psiquiatra acostumbrado a involucrarse en la vida de sus pacientes, conversan sobre...
18) Daño colateral
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"Un crimen siempre deja huellas, pero estos indicios suelen diluirse cuando el contexto esta lleno de corrupcion, cuando la inocencia es una consecuencia de la mentira y la traicion es el arma que se esgrime todos los dias. En Venezuela cualquiera puede darse por muerto cuando tiene al regimen en su contra; este es el caso de un nino desaparecido diez anos atrs. Sin embargo, hay indicios de que sigue con vida."--
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"When wealthy American businessman Glenn Danning goes missing in Venezuela, investigator Miranda Soto volunteers to track him down. It's her first assignment for the Civilian Personnel Recovery Unit, but this mission is about more than salvaging the remnants of her shattered military career. Glenn was Miranda's best friend and first lover, and she'll do anything to save him from danger-- especially since she just lost everything that mattered to her....
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